EVwire brief: Google is partnering with Nevoya and the Center for Green Market Activation (GMA) to deploy 25 electric semi trucks and dedicated charging infrastructure on an all-electric freight corridor between Houston and Dallas, Texas.
Google's 25 trucks are part of a larger 63-truck project, the biggest known Class 8 battery electric deployment in Texas. The full fleet is expected to cover roughly 11 million miles (17.7 million km) a year and cut an estimated 92,000 metric tons of CO2 equivalent compared to diesel over the contract period.
"By pooling our EAC procurement with other companies, we are able to send a stronger demand signal, which in turn helps to grow the market for new technologies like zero-emissions freight shipping."
The Dallas-Houston corridor is easily covered by the Tesla Semi’s range. (Source)
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Google won't be shipping its own packages between Houston and Dallas. Instead, it's buying Environmental Attribute Certificates (EACs) tied to the zero-emission miles the trucks rack up on the corridor. Think of it as carbon offsets, but for verified electric miles actually driven.
An independent auditor checks the math, and Google books the environmental credits to its supply chain without ever touching the physical freight. The whole thing is coordinated through the GMA, a climate nonprofit that bundles corporate demand to de-risk big electric truck rollouts.
As an apparent hint at what trucks Nevoya is running in the program, images from Google's blog post and a LinkedIn post by Kate Brandt, Google's Chief Sustainability Officer, show Tesla Semis in Nevoya's green livery.
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Context:
The Houston-Dallas corridor is roughly 240 miles (385 km) by highway, comfortably within range for current Class 8 battery electric trucks.
Google joins Amazon, Meta, eBay, Etsy, and Green Worldwide Shipping in the GMA's trucking procurement program. Those five were announced in January as backers of Nevoya's initial Texas deployment of about 40 trucks. Their combined demand, as Nevoya's Chief Commercial Officer John Verdon put it at the time, "massively de-risked the deployment" by locking in enough revenue to get the financing done for both trucks and charging.
Nevoya launched in 2023 out of Santa Monica and currently runs about 50 electric trucks across California, Arizona, and Texas. Its fleet includes Tesla Semis, Volvos, and Freightliner electrics, hauling freight between the LA and Long Beach ports, the Inland Empire, and longer runs to Central Valley and the Bay Area.
Source: Google blog, Kate Brandt on LinkedIn
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